Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 November 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms
9:00 am
Mr. John McKeon:
And other things, exactly. They may have a number of different sources of income. They have found a source of income that was not in place at the time they made the claim. It is predominantly through inheritances. That is something they need to tell us about and sometimes they do not. They do not realise they need to tell us and then when we do a check or a survey, we find they have a lot more money in the bank than they declared when they were 65 of 66 and that affects their entitlement.